Coffee Storage experiments - Page 6
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Sorry, I must have missed the part about how the vacuum got messed up. Thats what I was asking.CathyWeeks wrote:They are getting cupped along with the rest of the samples. I didn't attempt to revacuum them. I pull them out a few minutes before the rest to give them time to come up to temperature inside the plastic, prior to grinding.
They are holding onto good aromas better than all of the other sample methods except for the bale-top fidos, though.
I drink two shots before I drink two shots, then I drink two more....
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Oh cool - nice one!CathyWeeks wrote:I won't know until the final cupping next weekend. My daughter is assigning the samples so that I don't know which is which, until the very, very end.
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Oh, ok.RyanJE wrote:Sorry, I must have missed the part about how the vacuum got messed up. Thats what I was asking.
The day after I packed all of the samples, I packaged up 4 more (one for each weekly cupping), in the same kind of Waring Pro vacuum bags that I used for two of the other samples (vacuumed tightly, but maintaining the brick for one, and not the other). I vacuumed them tightly, then shoved them in the freezer. When I went to do my first cupping, I discovered that all 4 bags of frozen beans were no longer bricked. They weren't puffed either, just pretty loose. I left the 3 remaining in the freezer, doing nothing about the loss of vacuum, but keeping them frozen. I've been retrieving one for each cupping.
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I didn't follow all of the details of this interesting set of experiments, but I have been waiting for the conclusions with interest. Is there more to come?
Matt
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